More Muscle Building Tactics:
Building muscle is one of the most sought after goals that guys have when they begin a workout program. It’s totally understandable. Most guys equate muscle with power (in and out of the gym) and not to mention the ability to get girl attraction!
With this week’s video, I’m going to show you a muscle building tactic that you’ll need to start doing if you want to build muscle as quickly as possible. That said, I’m going to ask you to fail! What? That’s right, I want you to fail…on your set that is.
You see, working out to failure is an important requirement of building muscle. The intensity needed to train to failure is usually enough to cause a growth adaptation to the muscles you’re trying to build. I’ll explain exactly how training to failure can be different from exercise to exercise however and more importantly, how you can use it effectively to build the most muscle.
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Toasters!!!!!
This video changed my life!
Reese from malcom in the middle is jacked. Holy shit
I thought they were 2 cat baskets he was pushing
those dumbbells sound like my parents glassbench.. hated that sound growing up couldnt sneak or anything
Red faced and bad ass!!! Nice toasters too!! Haha
I got a question for anyone that can answer. So Jeff was wanting us to train to l failure but is that for every set? Say you push to failure on your first set of 12 wouldn’t you not be able to do the next set of 12 ???
So why do you allow yourself to cheat on the curls a smidge to get to the eccentric phase but not allow it on pull-ups? You say in another vid to end the pull up when your form on the concentric is poor. You can't cheat to get yourself on top the pullup and then do a good form eccentric on the way down like you are on the curls? On the OPT model, hypertrophy is 75-85% intensity. How does that figure in to completing each exercise to failure? Thanks.
Should you do multiple sets of "failure sets" or just one set of a failure rep on each weight activity?
People need to stop complaining, these toasters are freaking awesome! They are so small and don't waste any kind of space in your room. Even having a basic set dumbbells is a huge waste of space, in comparison.
You can hide these toasters in your shoe bin
if you want. Try to hide or put away some dumbbells. They are always in the way!
And if you have interchangeable dumbbells, it takes for ever to change the weights. Every pragmatic person, will love these heavy toasters!
One set to failure on each exercise works well for me, with a moderate strain set prior to it. It’s the same training principle that Dorian Yates used to use when he was Mr.Olympia. I find that doing this for about 6 weeks then doing 2 weeks with lighter weights works well. This allows the CNS to recover.
so if your using a weight and and you can push pass 12 reps during that set you keep pushing until you hit failure right?
then on the next set you adjust the weight?
arched back at 4.01
Jeff has a great way of explaining things, he's such a good teacher and seems so humble.
He looks older here than he does now 🤔wow
Here in 2019
AthleanX.
LEAN.
LEAN Body fat percentage.
That sums up about Jeff.
Intro: 15 second eternity of caption saying "What's up guys?"
Me: When's he gonna say "Jeff Cavaliere Athlean-X.com"?….. C'mon already!
This is Jeff’s #1 topic
Depuis 2012 jusqu'au 2019
Une différence énorme!
Toujours pour le mieux, bonne continuation Jeff🌻.
2019, approaching 2020. i still think those are toasters.
Question, I've heard Jeff say to gain hypertrophy we need to have the muscle under stress for about 40 seconds. If I reach failure before 40 seconds, am I still making gains in muscle growth ?
I wonder where Jesse was in 2012? 🤔 😂
7 fucking years, And you reccomend it to me now YouTube. Gee tnx i guess
GOD THAT INTRO
Here in 2020. Those were some janky ass weights bro lol.
He looks bigger here than he does now, right?
Jeff is awesome teacher and humble guy. Thankyou Jeff for all the efforts
Training to failure is the answer to reversing the aging process?
Always thought he looked 40 ? And even now 40!?
I love everything Jeff has to offer. Never learned so much about training in so short time. Chop that intro man!
Jeff's biceps are definitely fuller and pop more, now.
The difference in Jeff's biceps from back then to now is insane
0:44 holy fucking shit his intro hasn't changed a bit
Man, looking back on this, Jeff has come a LONG way. Well deserved, it's great to see.
4:30 when she knows she lost the arguement
I did this once on the press. Dropped the damn dumbbell on my head. I've learned to stop just slightly before failure.